OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “James Bard” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Thomas Hunt and the America
James Bard · 1852
Sarah A. Stevens
James Bard, born New York City 1815-died White Plains, NY 1897 · 1873
Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
John Bard
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1828
Saint James the Lesser
Gil de Siloe · ca. 1500
Urn (one of a pair)
James Neale · 1778–80
Perfume burner (one of a pair)
Matthew Boulton · probably ca. 1770
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray · June 20, 1789
Incense burner
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1530–40
Hot water jug
James Wyatt · 1775–76
Pair of candelabra with Winged Victories
Pierre Philippe Thomire · ca. 1810–15
Lady and cavalier surrounded by the four continents
Artist not stated in the record · 1651
Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 88 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118827 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:22 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.